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[接上页] (ii) importation of merchandise, food and drink; (Amended 86 of 1993 s. 17)(j) establishing and maintaining quarantine stations for persons and for regulating the management of the same; (k) detention and seclusion in a quarantine station or on board of persons, whether actually suffering from disease or not, arriving on vessels or aircraft subject to isolation, and for the payment to Government of any costs and expenses charged or incurred for the medical attendance and maintenance of any such persons; (Amended 38 of 1955 s. 2) (l) measures to be taken for the prevention of the conveyance of infection by means of any vessel or otherwise from any area or port of Hong Kong, including- (Amended 86 of 1993 s. 17) (i) measures that shall be applied to vessels or aircraft before departure; (ii) measures that shall be taken to prevent the departure of persons infected with or suspected of being infected with plague, cholera or yellow fever, and of persons in such relation with the sick as to be rendered liable to transmit the infection of these diseases; (Amended 86 of 1993 s. 6) (iii) measures that shall be applied with respect to merchandise, articles or clothing infected or suspected of being infected; (iv) prohibition either absolutely or conditionally of the export of merchandise, or of articles or clothing infected or suspected of being infected; (v) precautions with regard to drinking water and foodstuffs taken on board vessels, aircraft or trains and the water taken in as ballast by vessels; and (Amended 86 of 1993 s. 6) (vi) measures for the prevention of access of mosquitoes to vessels or aircraft in the case of the prevalence of yellow fever; (vii)-(viii) (Repealed 86 of 1993 s. 6)(m) appointing, establishing and maintaining places for the sanitary control of aerial navigation and for prescribing the sanitary measures to be taken in respect thereof; (n) the liability of any person to defray the expenses connected with the enforcement of this Ordinance or any regulation made thereunder, and for regulating questions of compensation in connection therewith; and (o) the fine with which the contravention of any regulation made under this Ordinance shall be punishable, but so that no such fine shall exceed $10000. (Amended 38 of 1955 s. 9; 86 of 1993 s. 6)(3) Without prejudice to the generality of the provisions of subsection (1) and for the prevention of any epidemic, endemic, contagious or communicable disease, such regulations may also provide for- (a) compulsory reporting of infectious disease; (b) entering and searching houses, buildings, rooms and other places in which the presence of diseased persons or persons dead of disease or contacts may be suspected and for the examination of the occupants; (c) prohibiting or regulating the movements of diseased persons or of persons suspected of being diseased or of contacts; (d) removal of diseased persons or persons suspected of being diseased to hospital or other places for medical treatment, and for their detention until they can be discharged with safety to the public, and for the temporary occupation of places required for the treatment of diseased persons or for the segregation of diseased persons or contacts; (e) prohibiting or regulating the removal of bedding, clothing, furniture or other articles which have been in the presence of a diseased person and which are reasonably suspected of being infected, and for the disinfection or destruction of the same; (f) ordering the vaccination of persons, and ordering or executing the cleansing and disinfection of, houses, buildings, rooms and other places which have been occupied by any diseased person, or which are suspected of being infected with disease, or which are overcrowded or otherwise in an insanitary condition; (Amended 38 of 1955 s. 9) (g) house to house visitation, cleansing and disinfection; (h) the better prevention of the danger of the spreading of infection by rodents by destroying them or minimizing their numbers, and for the prevention of the passing of rodents from the shore to vessels and aircraft and vice versa; (Amended 38 of 1955 s. 2) (i) the disinfection and disinsecting and purification of infected vehicles; (Amended 38 of 1955 s. 9) (j) the examination of the bodies of dead persons and the certification of the cause of death in cases where the cause has not been certified by a qualified medical practitioner or where there is reason to suspect that the diagnosis made is not correct; (k) the speedy and safe disposal of the dead; and (l) such other matters as may appear to the Chief Executive in Council advisable for the prevention or mitigation of disease. (Amended 60 of 2000 s. 3)(4) The Director may by order in the Gazette amend any form prescribed under this section. (Added 86 of 1993 s. 6) (5) The Secretary for Health, Welfare and Food after consultation with the Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury may by order in the Gazette increase, decrease or otherwise vary any fee prescribed under this section. (Added 86 of 1993 s. 6. Amended L.N. 106 of 2002) |